Code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
42.70 kB
Words
355
Media files
3
Number of links
35 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Code of Practice for Statistics
The length of the page title is perfect. (266 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Germany
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 355 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
36.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.89 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Code of Practice
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Code of Practice
H1 Code of Practice for Statistics
H4 Empty heading
H4 Code Consultation
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain UK Statistical System
https://uksa.statisticsauthori...External Subdomain UK Statistics Authority
https://osr.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain Office for Statistics Regulation
/Subdomain IMG-ALT Code of Practice for Statistics
https://twitter.com/StatsRegul...External Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/feedRSS Feed
/Subdomain Text duplicate Code of Practice for Statistics
/Home
/the-code/Subdomain About the Code
/the-code/trustworthiness/Subdomain Trustworthiness
/the-code/quality/Subdomain Quality
/the-code/value/Subdomain Value
/for-organisations-that-produc...Subdomain For organisations that produce official statistics
/for-senior-leaders/Subdomain For senior leaders
/for-communications-staff/Subdomain For communications staff
/for-policy-and-evaluation-pro...Subdomain For policy and evaluation professionals
/for-analysts-and-other-profes...Subdomain For analysts and other professions
/voluntary-application/Subdomain What is voluntary application?
/voluntary-application/celebra...Subdomain Award for Voluntary Application
/how-to-apply-the-code-volunta...Subdomain How to apply the Code
/list-of-voluntary-adopters/Subdomain Organisations voluntarily applying the Code
/case-studies-listing/Subdomain Case studies
/code-universal-principles/Subdomain Code universal principles
/questions-for-data-users/Subdomain Questions for data users
/what-to-ask-about-geography/Subdomain What to ask about geography
/sources-of-official-statistics/Subdomain Sources of official statistics
https://osr.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain Office for Statistics Regulation guidance
/glossary/Subdomain Glossary
https://twitter.com/StatsRegul...External Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Text duplicate LinkedIn
/feedText duplicate RSS Feed
/the-code/trustworthiness/t3-o...New window Subdomain T3: Orderly release
A-TITLE https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/the-code/trustworthiness/t3-orderly-release/
https://osr.statisticsauthorit...New window External Subdomain consultation
A-TITLE https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/time-for-a-change-amending-the-code-of-practice-to-allow-alternative-release-times-for-official-statistics/
/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Co...New window Subdomain Download the Code (PDF, 0.58MB)
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https://osr.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain Text duplicate Office for Statistics Regulation
https://osr.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain a summary report
/Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/StatsRegul...New window External Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LinkedIn
/feedRSS
/copyright/Subdomain Copyright
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms and Conditions
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Website Privacy Policy
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact us
/site-map/Subdomain Site Map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The page response time is excellent with 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 184 referring domains.
This page has 2,312 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 167 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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